As, at various times people have guessed:

Every major character

Every minor character

Every dead character

Characters never seen before

A new character we've never even heard of before

One of the 11 Cylons we've already seen

Inanimate objects (Starbuck's Viper, The Galactica, Pegasus etc)

"Wonderful Gaseous Helium"

Various other answers covering every possible configuration of matter, be it into a live being or other object

It's a trick and there's actually only 11 Cylons

On this basis, how can absolutely no-one be even close?

My second question is about Simon. Why have they always given him so little screen time and are they likely to rectify this in any way by the end of the show - or at the very least in the Cylon centric movie coming out? Currently, I'm sure you could have redistributed his entire role amongst the other eleven? On a related note, will Doral who has all but disappeared get some more time as well?

Finally, any chance that we'll ever see one shot where we have all twelve Cylons in the same place at the same time?

Just a randon guess.

Brilliant!

Fuck Sci Fi!

The major thing that (at least partially) killed the show for me are the characters of Helo and Athena who I now extremely loathe (and yes, I can separate that from the actors who play them).

I can't say I liked the characters of Jammer or Ellen Tigh all that much but Jammer, I especially identified with because I think that would be the character I would have been most like. Desperately trying to do what I thought was the right thing, making a mess of it and getting punished for it. We got to see that play out over quite a lot of screen time (mainly the webisodes) and how it got him shot out of an airlock with the people responsible not knowing nor seeing the reasoning and struggle of his decision - nor would they have cared for the most part at the time anyway. That was much like real life can be time and time again. Those parts of the show can be done well.

However, Helo and Athena get free passes for anything and everything they do with no or disproportiately light consequences for their actions again and again and again. The audience can buy a lot of things in the context of this universe including the mysticism but this is one thing I've seen that a lot of people cannot. When Athena shot Natalie for reasons that can be best described as "spurious" I think a lot of people threw up their hands after the penalty turned out to be go stand in a corner for a short while before we act like nothing has happened. As a general rule, I think at least some of us would like something approaching consistency in terms of behaviour in how characters are treated for their actions.

Helo started off as a noble (though naive if not actually slightly thick character) to ending up so dense I was worried he was going to collapse into a neutron star. Such arguments as to why his wife couldn't possibly turn on the Colonials because "she said so" - well that's convincing. It went downhill from there. Especially when it gets increasingly obvious that the way the character is played has shown multiple instances of putting herself first before everyone - including Helo.

I think another talkbacker summed up perfectly how I felt in one of the early 4th Season talkback when he said something along the lines of "I want to keep enjoying this show but why is it now feeling like watching it is like doing homework?".

My point is, no other network could get away with doing this to their top rated shows, so why is Sci-FI being douches about it? Because they're a speciality channel? Because their ratings aren't in the high millions? Because they use a collection of hamster wheels rolling across a giant calendar and where the hamsters stop on said calendar is when they air the show? It is getting betond annoying and mindboggling having to put up with this. Oh well, only 11 more hours of TV time 'til I stop caring about this.

And for the record, the final cylon is the Starboard Flightpod on the Galactica. It let those Cylon's on the ship a little too easily in the episode Scattered.

I always was a Doctor Who fan from decades back but I felt that BSG was initially more consistently better to start with than the new Doctor Who episodes on at the same time. It didn't escape my attention that for me personally, a point came where I was enjoying Doctor Who a lot more than BSG. Yes, various inanities abounded in Doctor Who (have always done so) but I always found it fun. BSG started becoming too much work and I was starting to watch it out of a grim sense of obligation.

I will be watching the last 10 episodes but I won't really be anticipating it like I did the show a few years ago. Primarily I would blame that on scifi stretching the whole show out far too long between blocks of episodes.

Athena as a character doesn't really make any sense to me unless she's a sleeper agent, even from herself where she thought she was running out on the experiment on Caprica but in fact was continuing it for the other Cylons - after all they completely rewrote Boomer's mind. Sadly, I see insufficient evidence of this being true. There could be supernatural manipulation but that's different.

Boomer was another storyline that seems to have been crashed. There was a marked jump in the character going from pro-peace/compromise to destroy all humans. I know there was a fair chunk of her storyline deleted but it rendered her character rather wasted, which is a shame given that it was once a major character.

Other dud bits concerning Athena included her telling Adama that she didn't have any hidden sleeper commands (by pulling a gun on her no less). How would she know? That's why they call them "hidden sleeper commands" (see Encyclopedia Galactica under Boomer). Really one part of the show that took a major logic bypass.

Well, thanks for taking the time to talk to us about the upcoming show a bit more with us. Much appreciated ...

That and the end of the show not being a total copout, of course.

Steady on then.

A kick in the nuts is better than two kicks in the nuts, but I'm not gonna thank you for it.